Jordan Blashek & Christopher Haugh: ...how friendship can bring us together in times of strife
Nobody Told Me!
Nobody Told Me!
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🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
There is so much upheaval and division in the world right now, that it’s wonderful to be able to talk with two guests who are polar opposites in terms of their political views, yet great friends who took a 20,000 mile road trip across America to learn what things can bring us together in this time of strife and partisanship.
Our guests are Jordan Blashek, a staunch Republican, and Christopher Haugh, a true-blue Democrat. The result of their 44-state journey is a fabulous new book called: Union: A Democrat, A Republican and a Search for Common Ground.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Nobody Told Me. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black. |
| 0:15.9 | There is so much upheaval and division in the world right now, |
| 0:19.0 | and it's wonderful to be able to talk with two |
| 0:21.6 | guests who are polar opposites in terms of their political views, yet great friends who took a |
| 0:26.6 | 20,000 mile road trip across America to learn what things can bring us together in this time of strife |
| 0:32.5 | and partisanship. Our guests are Jordan Blashek, a staunch Republican, and Christopher Haw, a true blue Democrat. |
| 0:40.0 | The result of their 44-state journey is a fabulous new book called Union, a Democrat, a Republican, and a search for common ground. |
| 0:48.9 | Jordan and Chris, we thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:51.7 | Well, thank you for having us. And I'm so glad that was recorded. That was the |
| 0:55.0 | best introduction to the book I think we've heard. So now you can save it. Yeah. You're hired. |
| 1:04.4 | Tell us how you two met and how your friendship evolved, because on the surface, you seem like |
| 1:10.2 | polar opposites who might not have a lot in |
| 1:12.3 | common. Yeah, it's a great question. So Chris and I met in 2014, 2015, when I had just left the |
| 1:21.3 | Marine Corps and Chris had just left the State Department. And we met at a graduate student bar |
| 1:27.4 | and kind of immediately struck up this great |
| 1:30.5 | friendship. At the time, all that seemed to separate us were our hairstyles, where I still |
| 1:35.0 | shaved my head like Marine and Chris, Chris has a ponytail. And we found that we bonded over these |
| 1:41.3 | great long discussions about books and literature and history and what we |
| 1:45.4 | wanted to do with our lives. And then slowly as the 2016 election approached, we found that our |
| 1:52.1 | great conversations just kept getting derailed by politics. And we were sort of shouting at each other |
| 1:57.2 | and leaving red in the face after, after stomping away |
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